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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective earthy has 5 senses
- earthy(s = adj.all) crude, gross, vulgar - conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
- earthy(s = adj.all) Array - not far removed from or suggestive of nature; "the earthy taste of warm milk fresh from the cow"; "earthy smells of new-mown grass"
- earthy(s = adj.all) Array - hearty and lusty; "an earthy enjoyment of life"
- earthy(a = adj.pert) Array - of or consisting of or resembling earth; "it had an earthy smell"; "only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean" Derived form noun earth2
- earthy(s = adj.all) down-to-earth - sensible and practical; "has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem"; "her earthy common sense"
CIDE DICTIONARY
earthy, a.
- Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter. [1913 Webster]"How pale she looks,
And of an earthy cold!" [1913 Webster]"All over earthy, like a piece of earth." [1913 Webster] - Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal. Milton. [1913 Webster]"The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy." [1913 Webster]"Earthy spirits black and envious are." [1913 Webster]
- Gross; low; unrefined. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch; as, an earthy fracture. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
earthy, adj. (earthier, earthiest)
1 of or like earth or soil.
2 somewhat coarse or crude; unrefined (earthy humour).
1 of or like earth or soil.
2 somewhat coarse or crude; unrefined (earthy humour).
Derivative
earthily adv. earthiness n.
THESAURUS
earthy
Adamic, Adamite, Adamitic, Circean, Philistine, abandoned, adobe, animal, animalistic, anthropocentric, anthropological, banausic, bawdy, beastlike, beastly, bestial, bodily, broad, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, carnal-minded, clayey, clayish, coarse, crass, crude, dirty, down-to-earth, dusty, earthly, fallen, finite, fleshly, frail, frank, gaudy, gross, gumbo, gutter, hard-boiled, hardheaded, hominal, homocentric, human, humanistic, indecent, lapsed, loamy, loud, low, lusty, man-centered, marly, material, materialistic, matter-of-fact, meretricious, mortal, muddy, mundane, nonspiritual, obscene, only human, orgiastic, physical, positivistic, postlapsarian, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, profane, rank, rational, raw, realist, realistic, reasonable, ribald, rough, rude, sandy, sane, scientific, scientistic, secular, sensible, sensual, shameless, sober-minded, soily, sound, sound-thinking, straight-thinking, swinish, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, unangelic, uncouth, unideal, unidealistic, uninhibited, unrefined, unromantic, unsentimental, unspiritual, vulgar, wanton, weak, worldlyROGET THESAURUS
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Land
N land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.
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